Once Upon A ...Sketch

February 15th Challenge WINNERS

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WOW...that was hard! Choosing the winners and the featured projects of our previous challenge was quite a task. Gee you girls can scrap! So many lovely projects to see,...so many interesting and exciting blogs to visit! I just love meeting all new people that join our challenges each month plus, we all love visiting the blogs of our long term followers :)

So the votes are in. Due to our blog swap last month, it was the team from Get Creative that voted this time around and here are the winners. A HUGE thank you to all the team at Get Creative for being our guests this month ! We hope to see you around.

Winner

The overwhelming winner of our last challenge is...

Sarah Groen (New Zealand)

CONGRATULATIONS Sarah. The team really LOVED your layout as it was such a bright and happy one with so many details. That picture is amazing amongst all the gorgeous layering and detailing and the way you stitched the blue paper is just so lovely! Well done!

For your efforts you have won your self a GORGEOUS kit from Swirlydoos so please contact Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com with your details to claim your prize! Please also grab your winners badge from the left hand side of this blog.

Top 5 Featured Projects

(in winning order)

Kelly Kapetanou (Greece)

Erin Blegen (USA)

Loretaart (Lithuania)

Tone (Norway)

Adriana Bolzon (Australia)

AWESOME inspiration here girls and as promised we had an extra prize to give to one randomly chosen person from our Top 5 featured projects. SO the person that wins the Imaginarium Designs chipboard pack is #2 Erin Blegen. Erin, please email us your details at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com and we will get your prize out right away.

Random Prize Winners

The person that wins the gorgeous handmade tag from Berry71Bleu is # 3 Elisabeth Bottoms

The person that wins the 2 paper collections from FeatureArt is #60 scrappekaten

Congratulations girls! Please contact Patti with your details and the prize you won at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to claim your prize.

March 1st Challenge + Meet our Guest Designer Iris Babao Uy

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Well hello everyone! How are you all going? I hope you all enjoyed the switch up with Get Creative last month as much as we did. Thank you all for embracing the concept and our new sister blog and I am so happy to see that many of you played along with both challenges. We are back to normal this month, and this is actually our 12th month that we are posting challenges and next month it will be our one year anniversary. Unfortunately this is the last month for some Design Team members who will end their term here at the end of this month, but we will talk about all that plus some new changes on April 1st!

For the time being a new month is upon us which brings a new challenge for the next 2 weeks.

The current challenge is one that will push you out of your comfort zone because you have to scrap a layout or create a project about YOU. Many MANY people find this daunting...I can understand that. I personally do not have a problem scrapping my self as I want my children and those I leave behind one day to know the real Nadia. But I was SO SO SO surprised to learn that my Design Team really struggled with this. This saddened me...it saddened me as I see SO many wonderful qualities in all of them, yet it astounds me how hard us women are on our selves. We truly are. I think one thing we are ALL good at for certain, is just being WOMEN in this day and age!!

SO I am particularly keen to see you all find something that you are good at, as little or as big as that might be and be confident enough to share it with us here. I cannot wait to see your entries!! Come on ladies..its time we believed in our selves and put our selves first just this one time..!

March 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/Theme:

All About Me!

The focus of your journalling and the theme of your layout has to be based on YOU and something/s that you are really good at. Don't be shy! We are all good at something as small or as big as it might be.

Ideas for journalling: being a good mum, cooking, talking, understanding people, organising, cleaning, gardening, studying, computers, fashion, exercising, scrapbooking, good at my job, maths, languages, writing , drawing, painting, photography, running, craft, sewing. Maybe you can talk about an aspect of your personality..your sensitivity, your 6th sense, your patience, your strength or bravery, your ability to stay positive.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and theme and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You MUST combine our journalling criteria with this sketch..

Guest Designers

It gives me GREAT pleasure to have this super talented lady give us inspiration on our blog this month. Please help me to welcome the amazingly talented..

Iris Babao Uy (The Philippines)

I am a scrapper from The Philippines, a wife and a mother to two sweet girls Nicole and Cheska. I rarely plan my pages – I let a photo or a patterned paper inspire me and I take it from there. I love the shabby chic and romantic style but I also enjoy working with bold patterns and striking colors. I’m an ink and paint type of person. I just have to get it a little messy to consider my page done. If I don’t have ink and paint on hand, then I just tear little bits of elements and stick it randomly for the sheer fun of itJ

I am fortunate to be designing for Webster’s Pages, Basic Grey, and Hambly Screen Prints. I was also named as one of the first two Prima Masters. I am also currently a designer Aussie Scrapsource and Dusty Attic and an endorsed teacher for WOW embossing powders. My work can be seen craft books as well as craft magazines such as Creating Keepsakes and the like.

I teach classes in Asia and soon in Europe. I may be reached through iris_sparkup@yahoo.com.

My blog address: My White Space

And here is Iris'take on our current challenge.

We also welcome the winner of the last challenge, who is one of Australia's nicest and most talented scrappers...

Cathy Cafun (Australia)

Hi, my name is Cathy Cafun. I live in Brisbane, Australia with my DH of 26 years and 2 teenage children. I found my passion for scrapping 7 years ago when I was introduced to this addictive craft by a friend, and have been hooked ever since.

I’m not really sure what my style is, but I do love mixing and layering patterned papers together and playing with different mediums. Having a son and a daughter means I enjoy creating very feminine pages and also love the grungy distressed style. I find browsing blogs, online galleries & mags a great source of inspiration and really enjoy challenge sites as they are a fantastic way of getting you out of your comfort zone. There are so many amazingly talented artists on these sites and I love looking at all their gorgeous creations and finding new and inspiring ideas to get the juices flowing.

Thanks so much to all the girls at Once Upon a Sketch for the wonderful opportunity to guest design this month.

And here is Cathy's layout based on our sketch and journalling criteria.

Incredible work ladies. Thank you so much for your wonderful input!

Design Team

(please visit their blogs for close ups and to leave them some LOVE!)

Lene Neby (Norway)

Pamela Young (USA)

Jeni O'Connor (Australia/Canada)

Patti Hamil (USA)

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard "mother" title and butterflies

Irini Liolia (Greece)

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard butterfly

Natalie May (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs Chipboard flourish**

Page inspired by Melinda Spinks

Mahlin Wiggur (Sweden)

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard frames

Vicky varvadouka (Greece)

Sandi Taloumis (USA)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard butterfly (lower right)

Nadia Cannizzo (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard embellishment 1 frame, butterfly, word LOVE and window with lattice

Sponsors

"Berry71bleu is an Etsy shop owned by Marivic Clifton. We specialize in custom and premade embellished hang tags, scrapbook pages, and altered gift ideas with a vintage flair. Each handmade item is unique and embellished with vintage or modern replica findings that goes perfectly with what we sell. We also accept custom orders. Pls visit our etsy shop,http://www.etsy.com/shop/berry71bleu/ or email berry71bleu@gmail.com for more information. Check out our blog, http://berry71bleu.blogspot.com/ for inspiration from our Design Team".

*****

Feature Art is an art paper designing company located in South Australia.

CREATING THE UNIQUE DESIGN is our company mission. We offer unique patterned paper that help to develop the versatile craft projects for the craft industry. All our paper product is designed and printed in Australia. We will continue to provide our customers with excellent products and best service always.

Website: http://www.featureart.net.au/store/index.php

Prizes

How would you like to be our Guest Designer for April? This is the challenge where you have the chance to win a spot on our design team for the whole upcoming month simply by winning this challenge. As well as being our Guest Designer, as chosen by our Design team, you will also receive this GORGEOUS kit from Berry71Bleu 's etsy shop....

Papers from GCD (sweet surrender collection), Journal, Lace trims, Fab Scraps metal embellishments, vial of silver glitter, set of clear stamps from 7 gypsies, Tag from Berry71bleu, paper flowers, prima flowers, Rhinestone vintage-style pendants,sequined picks, butterfly, adhesive faux pearl, glittered skeleton key ornament

Lastly we LOVE to encourage EVERYONE here at Once Upon A..Sketch to play along with us NO MATTER your skill level or scrapbooking style. SO we have 2 prizes us for grabs for 2 RANDOMLY chosen people.

Firstly, another prize from our ongoing sponsor Berry71Bleu. One randomly chosen entry will receive this GORGEOUS handmade tag from Berry71Bleu. Here is an example of the kind of tag you could receive..

Our second prize for one RANDOMLY chosen person will be 2 paper collections from FeatureArt...

Good luck everyone!!

Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are free to combine Once Upon A..Sketch challenges with other challenges. We don't mind at all!!!

**You are allowed to create a card, layout or off-the-page item based on the provided sketch and additional journalling criteria. If you are creating a card or altered item you only need to include a quote.

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable.

**Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery and link it on the right hand side of this blog using the Link tool. Please provide a direct link to your post, not your entire blog.If the link tool is down, please leave a comment on the comments section and link your layout there.

** The deadline for this challenge is midnight March 14th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winners and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

For a complete list of the rules please see the top of this page.

More Inspiration From Our Sponsor SWIRLYDOOS

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Hi everyone.

I thought I would show you today what the Design Team from Swirlydoos kit club did with our current challenge.

February 15th Challenge

Journalling criteria/theme: HOLIDAYS/VACATION

Have you printed out all those photos from your last holiday/vacation or most favourite holiday/vacation? We would LOVE to see them and hear all about it. With the theme of holidays/vacation for this challenge, we would love to hear about: your favourite holiday/vacation of all time or a favourite place you would LOVE to take a holiday in . Or how about the last holiday/vacation you went to? Maybe you have not travelled yet? Then tell us about your DREAM HOLIDAY /VACATION destination.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and theme and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch.

Swirlydoos Design Team

Lisa Gregory

Lisa Valentine (card)

Paulien Van den Bosch

Vicky Alberto

Sponsors

We are delighted to be sponsored once again by a friend of Once Upon A..Sketch, the gorgeous US kit club..

SWIRLYDOOS

Swirlydoos coordinated scrapbook kits are comprised of elegant papers and products that help our members create beautiful pieces of art both in their scrapbooks, and altered art projects. Swirlydoos tries to include only the newest and most innovative products on the market, as well as showcasing handmade and non-traditional products that we find within the crafting community. We encourage new growth in our members by offering monthly challenges on our forums and offering both photo and video tutorials which help them to learn new tips, tricks and techniques. We also offer a monthly technique or project kit to help further our members in their artistic ability. In addition, we offer various coordinating add ons for those ladies who can never have too many scrappy goodies!

Come check us out at http://www.swirlydoos.com/ and see for yourself what sets Swirlydoos apart from other scrapping communities on the net!

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Imaginarium designs, is a new chipboard company founded in 2010. It is the combined collaboration of a Mother and Son team who both work in the paper craft industry.

Please visit the blog for inspiration and to see what the design team has been up to http://www.imaginariumdesigns.blogspot.com/ and you can purchase this amazing chipboard at Seriously Scrapbooking (they ship anywhere in the world at actual postage cost)

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We also welcome one more sponsor to Once Upon A..Sketch who will actually sponsor all our challenges with 1 prize all year long!! How exciting!

*****

Feature Art

Feature Art is an art paper designing company located in South Australia.

Website: http://www.featureart.net.au/store/index.php

Prizes

The winner of this prize will receive this gorgeous kit from Swirlydoos...

** January kit

We are SO fortunate to have so many sponsors who love our site and want to sponsor prizes so besides the main prize for the winner, we will also have a prize for one person featured in the Top 5. I will do a random draw amongst the Top 5 featured projects (sometimes depending on voting there are more) and 1 person will win this generous pack of chipboard from Imaginarium Designs

Lastly we LOVE to encourage EVERYONE here at Once Upon A..Sketch to play along with us NO MATTER your skill level or scrapbooking style. SO we have 2 prizes us for grabs for 2 RANDOMLY chosen people.

A GORGEOUS handmade tag from Berry71Bleu. Here is an example of the kind of tag you could receive..

2 paper collections from FeatureArt...

Good luck everyone!!

Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are free to combine Once Upon A..Sketch challenges with other challenges. We don't mind at all!!!

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable.

** The deadline for this challenge is midnight February 29th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winners and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

For a complete list of the rules please see the top of this page.

February 1st Challenge WINNERS

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Hey everyone! THANK YOU so much to everyone that played along with our last challenge. We had 80 amazing entries and voting was very difficult yet again!

As you know, we have switched teams with our sister blog Get Creative for February and so the winners this time have come from the Get Creative Design Team.

**Please note all winners have 1 week to claim their prizes**

I received votes from 12 Design Team members from Get Creative and the winners were so close all along. It is with great pleasure though that I announce that the winner out of 80 gorgeous entries, as chosen by the Get Creative Design Team is ...

CATHY CAFUN (Australia)

(Cathy has hidden journalling on the orange tag on the right of the photo)

Cathy, you have created a work of art here. This is SIMPLY a pleasure to look at. The bold colours, the stunning picture and the way you interpreted this layout makes it clear to see why you were chosen as a winner out of so many. Your layering here is superb and the whole feel of your layout represents the young and funky attitude of your handsome son. Well done Cathy!!!

Cathy, for your efforts you have won your self a spot on our team for the month of March as well as a lovely kit from Swirlydoos! Please contact Irma ( irma0408@yahoo.com ) to get all the information on your Guest Designer spot and please contact Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to claim your prize.

Please also grab your winners badge from the left hand side of this blog!

As you all know we usually feature our Top 5 at this point. But ladies we had SO many wonderful entries and such a high amount of entries that the Get Creative team was simply blown away and found it hard to narrow it down to just a few. SO I have decided to feature 10 layouts this time that were all stunning and could have easily been winners.

Top 10 featured projects

(in winning order)

Coming in at just 1 point behind Cathy's winning layout is

Erin Blegen (USA)

Followed closely behind by these next few layouts...

Shona Keehn (Canada)

Mazlina (Australia)

Sarah Groen (New Zealand)

Michelle Whorwood (New Zealand)

Lillesmor (Norway)

Anne Bente (Denmark)

Kelly Foster (USA)

Kay (USA)

(*Kay has hidden journalling in rolled up in paper)

Leanne Nankervis (Australia)

Well done to all of you! Please grab your featured badge from the left hand side of this blog.

Unfortunately there were some entries that could not be counted in the voting as they included no journalling or the wrong theme. Please remember to read the journalling criteria closely :)

Random Winners

The winner of the handmade tag by Berry71Bleu is #45 Anupama Choudary

The winner of the 2 paper collections from FeatureArt is #58 Dani Cavalcante

CONGRATULATIONS Anupama and Dani! Please contact Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com with your address and the prize you won!

Thank you for participating in our challenges everyone! We look forward to seeing more of your creations. :)

February 15th Challenge

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Hi again everyone and welcome to a new challenge here at Once Upon A..Sketch. We are delighted to see so many of you embracing our sister blog Get Creative this month and playing along with our challenge as well as theirs. Its awesome to see how scrapbooking, which is JUST a hobby, can bring together so many people from all over the world.

I hope you have been enjoying the challenges. Let's see what the next challenge is!
(Thanks to our lovely follower Denise Price for suggesting we add the word "vacation" as that is the word used instead of "holiday" in some parts of the world)

February 15th Challenge

Journalling criteria/theme: HOLIDAYS/VACATION

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and theme and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch.

Guest Designers

Trina McClune (New Zealand)

Our winner of our last challenge...

Jeanette Lee (Singapore)

THANK YOU so much Trina and Jeanette for your contribution this month. We hope you loved the challenges as much as we loved seeing what you created with them.

Get Creative Guest Design Team

Anastasia Sergiaki

Anastasia Teologlou

Eleni Gratsia

Marie Papadopoulou

Melenia Agapides

Olga Milona

Elina Katechi

Channa Suitella

Efi Stamateli

Alex Pantazi

Irini Liolia

Sponsors

We are delighted to be sponsored once again by a friend of Once Upon A..Sketch, the gorgeous US kit club..

SWIRLYDOOS

Come check us out at http://www.swirlydoos.com/ and see for yourself what sets Swirlydoos apart from other scrapping communities on the net!

*****

Imaginarium designs, is a new chipboard company founded in 2010. It is the combined collaboration of a Mother and Son team who both work in the paper craft industry.

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We also welcome one more sponsor to Once Upon A..Sketch who will actually sponsor all our challenges with 1 prize all year long!! How exciting!

*****

Feature Art

Feature Art is an art paper designing company located in South Australia.

Website: http://www.featureart.net.au/store/index.php

Prizes

The winner of this prize will receive this gorgeous kit from Swirlydoos...

** January kit

Lastly we LOVE to encourage EVERYONE here at Once Upon A..Sketch to play along with us NO MATTER your skill level or scrapbooking style. SO we have 2 prizes us for grabs for 2 RANDOMLY chosen people.

A GORGEOUS handmade tag from Berry71Bleu. Here is an example of the kind of tag you could receive..

2 paper collections from FeatureArt...

Good luck everyone!!

Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are free to combine Once Upon A..Sketch challenges with other challenges. We don't mind at all!!!

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable.

**You may enter as many times as you like

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

For a complete list of the rules please see the top of this page.

More Inspiration from our Sponsor SWIRLYDOOS Design Team

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Hi everyone. You still have about a week to enter our current challenge and today I wanted to show you a few layouts created for our current challenge by our main sponsor for February SWIRLYDOOS kit club

Firstly, a little about the sponsor..

SWIRLYDOOS

Come check us out at http://www.swirlydoos.com/ and see for yourself what sets Swirlydoos apart from other scrapping communities on the net!

February 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: LOVE

February 14th is Valentines Day here in Australia and in many parts of the world. For this challenge we would like you to create a project about the one MALE you love. And we do not mean just your partner or spouse. We mean any male in your life.

Ideas for journalling: You could journal about the love you have for your son, father, grandfather or a special person in your life or any pet.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch

Guest Designers from Swirlydoos

Paulien van den Bosch

Tiffany Morgan

Lisa Valentine

Thank you ladies for designing for us for this challenge. We love the inspiration you provided!!

SO how are you all going with the current challenge? We have loved the entries so far and can't wait to see more. Here are the prizes for a lucky few :)

Prizes

How would you like to be our Guest Designer for March? The winner of this challenge as voted by the Design Team will get to come back next month and be part of our Design Team. This person will also win this awesome kit from Swirlydoo's

December Kit from Swirlydoos

We also have 2 prizes up for grabs that will be given to two RANDOMLY selected entries.

The first prize is a BEAUTIFUL handmade tag from Berry71Bleu

The second prize for another randomly chosen person are these 2 paper collections from FeatureArt.

Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable.

** The deadline for this challenge is midnight February 14th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winners and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like and combine this with other challenges.

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

For a complete list of the rules please see the top of this page.

Take care everyone!

January 15th Challenge **WINNERS and TOP 5 ! "

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For our current challenge please click HERE

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Hi everyone. Time to announce our winners from the last challenge. Incredibly hard yet again and the Design Team took great care in choosing the layouts they thought were winners. We had 9 Design Team members vote individually and one person's name was popping up everywhere....

WINNER

MAIKO MAWA (Japan)

(Maiko's journalling is hidden in a tag under the flowers)

HUGE congratulations Maiko. Where do I begin? Beautiful picture, amazing details and clustering of the flower images, gorgeous use of colour and an overall amazing layout we couldn't help but choose as the winner! Well done!

Please don't forget to grab your badge from the lest hand side of this blog and you have won a 30 day membership at Miss Art's Papercrafting School at the the Extra Credit Level!! Lucky you! Please contact me, Nadia ( nadiac78@hotmail.com) to claim your prize.

Top 5 Featured Projects

(in winning order)

Marion (Norway)

Efi (Greece)

Kelly Foster (USA)

Romy Veul (The Netherlands)

Bellaidea (Poland)

CONGRATULATIONS once again girls. Your work amazed us! Please take your Featured badge from the left sidebar of the blog.

RANDOM WINNERS

The winner of the 2 paper collections by FeatureArt is #1 MAYA from Norway

The winner of the chipboard pack from Imaginarium Designs is #40 Lauren Tomacek from Australia

Congratulations to both of you. Maya and Lauren, please contact our sponsor coordinator Patti ( onceuponasketch@hotmail.com ) with your postal details and which prize you won to claim so it can be sent to you right away.

All prize winners PLEASE note that you have 1 week from today to claim your prizes. THANK YOU!

Well done to all the winners. Keep up the good work everyone.

February 1st Challenge + Meet Our February Guest Designer Trina McClune

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Hi everyone! A new month means a new challenge and we have something pretty interesting for you this month.

Here at Once Upon A...Sketch, we are nearing the end of our first year and during this time we have noticed a huge amount of support from many countries around the world and we are incredibly lucky that our challenges are supported by so many people from all different parts of the globe. One of these countries is Greece, and we have come to realise that we receive many entries from such a small country where scrapbooking is so new, so we had a think and decided to team up with another challenge blog based in Greece and run by our very own Irini Liolia called Get Creative. How exciting!! We have decided to become "sister" blogs, because let's face it...most of us scrapping are women and is there anything stronger than a sisterhood? So for this month only, the Design Team from Once Upon A..Sketch are guests over at Get Creative and taking part in THEIR 1st and 15th of the month challenges and the Design Team from Get Creative are guests on Once Upon A..Sketch! Thus a new bond is formed between 2 challenge blogs.

So head on over to Get Creative to see what our team did with the challenges and maybe play along too.

Oh and never fear! We have been keeping an eye on some other countries and their blogs too and we will do this again with some very popular blogs from other countries.

February 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: LOVE

Ideas for journalling: You could journal about the love you have for your son, father, grandfather or a special person in your life or any pet.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch

Guest Designers

Trina McClune (New Zealand)

I started to scrapbook well before I realised it had a name, and when my MIL asked if I’d seen this new shop down the road, it was like I’d finally come home. As they say, the rest is history.

I’ve been scrapping ever since – approx 7.5 years - once my twins started sleeping through the night.

I’ve found it to be not only a wonderful creative outlet for me, but also a therapeutic way to mull over ideas, and thoughts as I scrap about those I love.

I currently design for Prima Marketing. I’ve loved Prima for so long I can’t imagine a LO of mine without Prima product on it. But I’ve also designed for several online challenge sites, magazines and have been published widely throughout Australia, NZ and somewhat in USA.

I live in NZ with my family of 3 children (Matt and Sarah 7, and Daniel 5) and incredibly supportive husband Andy. We live in the middle of NZ’s largest city and have somehow managed to obtain 6 chickens, a cat, 3 large vege gardens and numerous fruit trees.

Life is full. Life is fun. Life is chaotic. Life is challenging. Life is good.

My Blog: Living My Dream

Here is Trina's layout for our challenge

We also welcome one more guest, who is the winner of our last challenge...

Jeanette Lee (Singapore)

Hello, my name is Jeanette Lee. I am 26 years old and I reside in Singapore. I started scrapbooking since November 2008, with the initial intention of making some Christmas gifts for friends. I never thought I would actually fall in love with this hobby. Ever since then, it has been a wonderful journey and I am thankful that there is an outlet for me to record down memories through the use of scrapbooking. I am constantly challenging myself to try out new mediums and techniques. I would describe my scrapbooking style as shabby chic, clean and streamlined while enjoying adding special touches that defines who I am. Do find some time to visit my blog at http://nettescraps.blogspot.com

Once again, I am so honoured to be a part of the Once Upon A....Sketch Design Team for the month of February. Thank you for this lovely opportunity.

Here is Jeanette's layout for our challenge..

Now please welcome our Guest Design Team from Get Creative all the way from Greece..

Anastasia Sergiaki (digital layout)

Anastasia Teologlou (card)

Eleni Gratsia

Marie Papadopoulou (mini album cover)

Melenia Agapides

Olga Milona (card)

Elina Katechi

Channa Suitella (card)

Efi Stamateli

Alex Pantazi (card)

Irini Liolia

**Love Cherish Adore Imaginarium Designs chipboard

January 1st Challenge WINNERS

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Hello to everyone! Its time to announce the winners and Top 5 featured projects for our January 1st challenge. It was once again a very difficult task to narrow it down to a few, so THANK YOU to everyone who played along and your ongoing support of our challenges.

*please not that all prize winners have 1 week to claim their prizes. Thank you SO much*

WINNER

Here is the winner of our last challenge, as voted by out Design Team members...

Jeanette Lee (Singapore)

Jeannete, that is one amazing cluster of embellishments and flowers. You have matched the colours of the papers and embellshiments brillinatly, and even though this is a "busy" layout, the focus is still on the gorgeous people in that photo. You did an amazing job and you have been picked as a winner by our Design Team. Well done. Please do not forget to grab your winners badge from the left hand side of this blog.

Jeanette you have won a spot on our Design Team for the month of February so please contact Irma, our Guest Designer coordinator at irma0408@yahoo.com to get all the info for the February Challenges. You are also receiving a gorgeous stamp set of your choice from The Craft's Meow so please contact our prize coordinator Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to claim your prize too.

Moving right along to our..

Top 5 Featured Projects

(in winning order)

We had a tie for second place as the next 2 projects received the exact points...

Kelly Foster (USA)

Lisa Valentine (USA)

Joyce Lawrence (USA)

Jennaroo (USA)

Sarah Groen (New Zealand)

Kay Fatula (USA)

*journalling is hidden behind the photos

WOW! Amazing talent and so much inspiration. The girls from the USA really showed us how its done this time! Well done to everyone. Please don't forget to grab your FEATURED badge from the left hand side of this blog.

RANDOM WINNERS

#8 is Saku (Japan)

Saku you have won 2 paper collections from FeatureArt! Please contact our prize coordinator Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com, within 7 days to claim your prize.

#47 is Sandra (Australia)

Sandra you have won a chipboard pack from Vicky Alberto's Etsy Shop! Please contact our prize coordinator Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com, within 7 days to claim your prize.

Congratulations to ALL the winners and featured projects. Keep going everyone. You are all doing so well. Thank you for the inspiration!!

January 15th Challenge

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Hi everyone! I sure hope you are all well and have some what settled now after the crazy speed that life seems to go at during the holiday season. Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I think the whole end of year rush gets to everyone, so I hope life is back to normal for you all. For us here in Sydney Australia, we have about 2 weeks left before the new school year begins so I think many of us are starting to itch for that to happen.

I hope you can find some time to play along with our January 15th challenge. The Design Team and Guest Designers have yet again created outstanding projects and I hope you will be inspired.

January 15th Challenge

Journalling Criteria:

HELLO 2012 or GOODBYE 2011?

For this challenge, the journalling theme is new beginnings, upcoming adventures but also saying goodbye to yet another year.. Are you glad 2011 is over? Are you looking forward to starting fresh in 2012? What are your goals or resolutions for the year ahead? What are you most looking forward to? Or maybe you can journal about your thoughts for the new year.

Things that you can journal about: a new job, house, baby or new scrapping adventures or Design Teams. Are you taking time off work? Are you planning a holiday somewhere? Maybe your children are starting school or you are getting a new pet. Or you could tell us why you are glad 2011 is over or why you will miss it. Anything goes really!

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

**You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch. **

Guest Designers

Our winner from November

Melenia Agapides (Greece)

Our winner from December

Erin Blegen (USA)

Thank you girls for being our Guest Designers this month. We have loved having you here and hope to see you play along with us here again.

Design Team

(please click on their names to be directed to their blogs)

Larissa Albernaz (Brazil)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard butterfly (small)

LG Belarmino (Philippines)

Bente Fagerberg (Sweden)

Natalie Elphinstone (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard window with lattice and shutters, capital letters and numbers

Georgia Heald (Australia)

Jasmine Shea (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard clock and swirl

Mai Kosugi (Japan)

Natalie May (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard title, flourish and bircage

Helen Tilbury (South Africa)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard turquoise decorative corners and picket fence

Heather Jacob (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard frame, heart and butterfly

**Heather's hidden journaling--tags with goals and intentions for 2012

Nadia Cannizzo (Australia)

More Inspiration from Our Sponsors...

2012-01-10T09:57:00.003+11:00

Hi there everyone. You still have a bit of time to enter our current challenge. It ends on midnight, Saturday 14th of December Australian Eastern Standard Time which is about 4 days away so plenty of time.

Today I wanted to show you a couple of layouts created for our challenge by some of the members on the Design Team of our sponsors.

January 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: New Years Eve!

Our theme this time is New year's Eve. We would like you to journal about your feelings around this time of year, or tell us about your most memorable New Year's Eve. Where were you? Who were you with? What did you do? Why is this one memorable? Note: the photo that you use for this challenge does not have to necessarily be from New Years Eve. For example, if you spent New Years Eve with your family you can have a photo of your family taken ANY time of the year.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch.

Vicky Alberto

from Vicky Alberto's Etsy Shop

Here is what Vicky says :

I was thrilled when Nadia asked if I would have the time to create a layout with her gorgeous sketch for the Jan 1st-14th challenge. The criteria along with the sketch is to share your thoughts/feelings or a memorable experience regarding New Year's Eve. For me it used to be all about the party. Now that I have kids, it is usually a night we hang out and have a lot of fun together - but this year was different. 2011 was an exhausting year for me and I wasn't feeling up to doing much celebrating. We spent a quiet evening watching a movie and after the kids went to bed I made my first New Year's resolution (first one ever!). Here is my layout interpretation of the sketch and the journaling is on the back. I used a few Dusty Attic chipboard pieces and I made the flowers using Green Tara petals and lace. For more layout details please visithttp://simplypaperandcreativity.blogspot.com

Journaling on the back reads: "This is me 3 years ago, the last time I didn't mind being photographed. As the years go by it is inevitable that more lines start appearing on our faces. I'd like to say that I have more laugh lines now... but the truth is the frown lines seem to be more prominent. My motto for 2012 is more laugh lines, less frown lines. This means some changes in my lifestyle will need to occur. I don't do well with change - but life is too short to not have the time to truly enjoy the moments that make you smile".

Thank you Vicky for your gorgeous work and I am right with you on the less frown lines and more laugh lines. Life is just too short not to! Thank you also for being our wonderful sponsor for this challenge and hope to see you here again.

Don't forget to visit Vicky Alberto's Etsy Shop HERE to see all the goodies she has up for sale.

Jean Martin

from The Craft's Meow

Jean martin created this beautiful card based on our sketch. THANK YOU so much Jean for your amazing creation. Your cards are simply out of this world and I am incredibly honored to showcase this one here.

I hope you have been inspired a little more to create something for our current challenge. We have loved the entries so far and hope to see some more.

Take care everyone.

January 1st Challenge

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**HAPPY NEW YEAR** everyone! May the year ahead be your best one yet. On behalf of my team and my self I wish you all a happy and healthy 2012.

Our very first challenge for 2012 is here.

January 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: New Years Eve!

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch.

Guest Designer s

We welcome 2 people to our blog this month. The first is uur winner from our November challenge who could not participate in December.

Melenia Agapides (Greece)

Hello everyone! My name is Melenia Agapides and I live in Greece (yes, the country that's usually in the headlines of the news lately). I'm a mother of two, a wife to a sweet Canadian guy

and an airport authority officer. I have been scrapping layouts since August 2009. My style is constantly evolving, due to the fact that I'm the kind of person that gets bored very easily and wants to change and be renewed by trying new things often. What I always strive for when scrapping is to achieve balance and harmony in my creations both colourwise and stylewise. I'm a sucker for sketches and challenges, as they help me improve my style and scrapping skills. If you want to see more of my work you can visit my blog melenia313.blogspot.com.

The next layout comes from the winner from our previous challenge.

Erin Blegen (USA)

Hi! My name is Erin Blegen and I am 28 years old. My husband Josh and I have been together for 5 years and we have 3 beautiful children together: Wyatt (4), Gunner (17 months), and Aspen (4 months). We make our home in a small cabin in the woods in northeastern Minn

esota, USA. We love ANYTHING outdoors! But indoors, my passion is most definitely scrapbooking! I first tried it out when Wyatt was born in 2007, completed one album, and then quit until July of 2010 when Gunner was born. Since then, I've been HOOKED. I scrap daily, and get rather irritated if I do not, lol! I am passionate about documenting my family's history, taking beautiful photographs, and making sure I never forget the small things that are so special :).

Feel free to check out my blog Scrappin' Sisters, which I share with my sister and best friend, Kelly :).

Finally, a big THANK YOU to Nadia for this wonderful and fun opportunity! It's an honor being able to create alongside your incredibly talent

ed team!

Erin says - My journaling is hidden, you can see the pull tag on the right and reads:

"I used to believe that New Years Eve had a curse on me as every one of them ended badly...I grew to highly dislike the holiday. But that was in my "party

girl" days...before I was married and had children. Now the holiday is spent with family, visiting, playing games, drinking wine, and watching movies while the kids play...these are the memories I enjoy creating.

Thank you SO much to our wonderful Guest Designers for their awesome work!

Design Team

(please click on their names to be directed to their blog)

Patti Hamil (USA)

***Imaginarium Designs chipboard clock, butterfly and title***

This page was very hard for me, last New Year's Eve we spend reflecting about my husband's Dad, and our beloved Bulldog who we lost on the 27th and 28th of December. But the page was theraputic!

Irini Liolia (Greece)

****Imaginarium Designs chipboard "Me and You" title

Gerry Van Gent (The Netherlands)

****Imaginarium Designs chipboard clock

Mahlin Wiggur (Sweden)

Translation of Journaling: Every year is the same. I feel the need to go back and see what happened the past year, what was good and what went wrong. I make lists for the upcoming year, for what I want to accieve which goal to aim at.

Vicky Varvadouka (Greece)

***Imaginarium Designs: Small frame, numbers, clock, frase (Moments in time), house.

Lene Neby (Norway)

***Imaginarium Designs chipboard butterflies, title and frames

Pamela Young (USA)

***Imaginarium Designs chipboard flourishes and clock piece

Natalie May (Australia)

***Imaginarium Designs chipboard leaves and title used

Vibeke Harila (Norway)

***Imaginarium Designs chipboard "Forever" title, "2006" numbers and the frame

Sponsors

We are so excited to welcome some new sponsors to our blog this month!

The Craft's Meow

The Craft's Meow offers a variety of photopolymer clear stamps designed by some of the best artists in the paper crafting world! This means there is something for everyone! We pride ourselves on great customer service and the lowest possible shipping cost. Come see what the buzz is all about! Visit our store blog and follow us on Facebook!

Feature Art

Feature Art is an art paper designing company located in South Australia.

Website: http://www.featureart.net.au/store/index.php

Vicky Alberto Etsy Shop

I am thrilled to be a sponsor for Once Upon A Sketch.Not only do I love the sketchesand the incredible design team interpretations, but I am also proud to sponsor a site that my scrappy friend Nadiacreated. It is one of the top sketchchallenge sites in industry and definitely embraces the true meaning of preserving memories. You can find a selectionof chipboard in my Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/vickyalberto. Please note that I have ordered and will bereceiving the newest released chipboard styles towards the end of January.I will also be restocking my site with the most popular pieces at thistime. They sell out very fast so be sure to check back often! Youcan follow my personal scrapbooking blog at http://simplypaperandcreativity.blogspot.com where I post updates about chipboardshipment arrivals.

Prizes

How would you like to be our Guest Designer for February? This is the challenge where you have the chance to win a spot on our design team for the whole upcoming month simply by winning this challenge. As well as being our Guest Designer, as chosen by our Design team, you will also receive.....

An in-stock stamp set from The Crafts Meow of the winners choice..

*example of stamp set the winner could choose.

We also have 2 prizes to give away to two randomly chosen entries.

Our first RANDOMLY chosen winner will win 2 paper collections from FeatureArt.

Our second RANDOMLY chosen winner will receive this Dusty Attic chipboard pack from Vicky Alberto's Etsy Shop

Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable.

** The deadline for this challenge is midnight January14th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winners and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like and combine this with other challenges.

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

For a complete list of the rules please see the top of this page.

December 15th challenge WINNERS

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Hi everyone. Its time to announce the winners of our last challenge. Thank you all for playing along during the busiest and craziest time of the year. It was wonderful and nothing short of interesting reading your journalling about how you all spend Christmas time.

We saw some stunning entries but there can only be one winner as hard as that truly is. Before I announce the winner there is something important I need to remind everyone.

**IMPORTANT NOTE: Remember that journalling is part of the requirements at Once Upon A..Sketch and it must be included on your layout in order for it to be a winner , random winner or a featured project. If your journalling is hidden please make sure you tell us WHERE it is hidden and that it is in fact hidden. We unfortunately had to overlook many beautiful entries because they included NO journalling. Please remember that a quote is ONLY to be used on cards or altered projects and NOT on layouts as it does not count as your own journalling ***

Now without further delay our winner from the last challenge is..

Kay Fatula

Well done Kay. Your layout is simply stunning. The way you matted the photo and the creative way you used the corner punches, as well as the all the gorgeous pop of colour all over your page made this a winning layout!! You have won 2 paper collections from Les Papiers De Pandore. Could you please email Patti at phami@live.com to claim your prize? Don't forget to grab your winners badge from the left sidebar of the blog.

Top 5 featured projects

(in winning order)

Michelle Roncon ( India)

Hilde Aaslund (Norway)

Sarah Groen (Australia)

Erin Blegen (USA)

**Erin's journalling is hidden in a tag behind the photo

Assol - Olga (Lithuania)

Well done ladies! Don't forget to grab your featured badge from the sidebar of the blog!

We also have 2 randomly chosen winners to give 2 prizes to..

Michelle Roncon you are Number 26 and and as well as being featured this time you have also won a chipboard pack from Imaginarium Designs! Well done! Please contact Patti at phamil@live.com to claim your prize.

Number 42 is Jean Green!! CONGRATULATIONS Jean, you have won 2 embossing folders from Handmade By Suzanne. Could you also please contact Patti at phamil@live.com to claim your prize.

Thank you all for playing along with us. We cant wait to see what you come up with this time around.

More Inspiration From Our Sponsor!

2011-12-21T11:38:00.002+11:00

Hi everyone. Today I wanted to share with you some more layouts created for our current challenge by the Design Team from one of our sponsors Handmade By Suzanne who we invited to be Guest Designers for us this month.

December 15th Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: Our Christmas traditions.

We would love to hear how everyone spends Christmas Day. Even if you do NOT celebrate Christmas, what do you do on Christmas Day?

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

Linda Eggleton

Marelize Frisby

Suzanne McGregor

Thank you SO much ladies. Your work is so inspiring.

Sponsors and Prizes

We welcome one more sponsor to our blog this month!

Les Papiers De Pandore

Les Papiers de Pandore is a small French manufacturer, born in early 2010.

Earth friendly, we try to respect our environment by using recycled papers, vegetable inks, and by printing locally in Provence.

Proud of its "French touch", the brand features classical designs in soft colors.

It is SUPER exciting to have you sponsor us this month!The winner of this challenge, as chosen by the Design Team will receive these 2 paper lines from Les Papiers De Pandore!

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One more sponsor for our November 15th challenge is the amazing Australian chipboard company Imaginarium Designs . They have been so generous to sponsor us all year with their beautiful chipboard and you can purchase it through Seriously Scrpabooking. They are giving away this gorgeous chipboard collection to one randomly chosen winner.

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Handmade By Suzanne

One lucky person, chosen randomly, will receive this prize from Handmade By Suzanne!

Tim Holtz Alterations Embossing Folder Set (Dot Matrix)

Thank you Les Papiers De Pandore, Imaginarium Designs and Handmade By Suzanne for sponsoring our challenges this month! We couldn't do this without you.

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Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable.

**Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery and link it on the sidebar of this blog using the Link tool. Please provide a direct link to your post, not your entire blog.If the link tool is down, please leave a comment on the comments section and link your layout there.

** The deadline for this challenge is midnight December 31st, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winners and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like and combine this with other challenges.

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

December 1st Challenge WINNERS

2011-12-19T14:33:00.001+11:00

Oh you girls simply love making it SO hard for us to choose the winners don't you? LOL! Voting was once again SOOOOOO close. There only a couple of points between the winner and the rest.

Before I announce the winner, the Design Team would like to acknowledge this beautiful layout by..

Maria Castillo

As beautiful and pretty this layout is, it is more the sentimental theme behind it all that touched many of us here at Once Upon A..Sketch. I have always said that my aim for this blog is to get people to journal more and more about things they normally wouldn't. Well, Maria is a lovely person, who is always so cheery, supportive and positive. I see her leaving comments on many people's blogs and you need to know that this layout was created a few days after a very tragic event ..a life changing event. I hope she was able to find some solace in creating this page and I hope we can all find 30 seconds out of our day to visit her post HERE to find out the meaning behind this layout and maybe leave her some love. It takes a lot to share this sort of thing with the world, but THANK YOU Maria for sharing your story with us.

Now, the winner of our December 1st challenge, that was a HUGE fave amongst the Design Team was..

Erin Blegen from the USA

WOW Erin! Your take on the sketch is awesome. The Design Team loved your title! We thought it was SO cute. The way you also distressed the edges of your page give this layout a winning look. The effect you also used on the photos was perfect! Well done.

For your efforts you have won a spot on our Design Team in January and a $20.00 gift voucher to use at Handmade By Suzanne. Please contact Patti at phami@live.com with your details to claim your prize and please also contact me, Nadia , at nadiac78@hotmail.com and I will give you all the details about next month's challenge.

Here is your badge to display on your blog..

Top 5 Featured Projects

(in winning order)

Brises (Poland)

Marylin Rivera (Puerto Rico)

Leanne Nankervis (Australia)

Anita Tillman (Australia)

and tied for 5th spot were...

Agneja (Lithuania)

and

Eila Sandberg (Sweden)

Well done ladies. Your layouts were ALL amazing and were all so very close. Here is your badge to display on your blog..

Now we have 2 RANDOMLY chosen prizes to give away.

The person that wins the Tim Holtz Embossing folders from Handmade By Suzanne, is ..

Number 19 is Maja Stokk (Sweden) who entered this gorgeous layout..

And the person who wins the collections from My Mind's Eye is

Number 13 is Patricia Cugnod from France who entered this beautiful page

CONGRATULATIONS girls. Maja please contact Patti at phamil@live.com to claim your prize and Patricia please email me, Nadia, at nadiac78@hotmail.com to claim your prize.

Well done to everyone! We cannot wait to see your entries for our current challenge. Bye for now.

December 15th Challenge

2011-12-15T08:09:00.003+11:00

Hi everyone! Welcome to another challenge here at Once Upon A Sketch...Its 10 days until Christmas! Can you believe it?

December 15th Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: Our Christmas traditions.

We would love to hear how everyone spends Christmas Day. Even if you do NOT celebrate Christmas, what do you do on Christmas Day?

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

Guest Designers

Ivana Camdzic (Canada)

Ivana says: "The quote I used doesn't have too much to do with Christmas, but since the only family we have here in Canada is our friends, we spend the holidays with them and that is one of our new traditions during the holidays. So I decided to create a card about friendship"

Our runner up from our November 15th Challenge

Rachael Funnell (Australia)

THANK YOU so much Ivana and Rachael for being our Guest Designers this month...this BUSY and CRAZY month! We loved having you here and hope to see you again.

Design Team

(please click on their names to be directed to their blog)

Natalie May (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs Chipboard border and title

Heather Jacob (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard title "Together"

Natalie Elphinstone (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs branch

Georgia Heald (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs Flourish

Larissa Albernaz (Brazil)

Jasmine Shea (Australia)

** Imaginarium Designs border

LG Belarmino (The Philippines)

Bente Fagerberg (Sweden)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard and Les Papiers de Pandore "En Attendent" papers

Mai Kosugi (Japan)

Sponsors and Prizes

We welcome one more sponsor to our blog this month!

Les Papiers De Pandore

Les Papiers de Pandore is a small French manufacturer, born in early 2010.

Earth friendly, we try to respect our environment by using recycled papers, vegetable inks, and by printing locally in Provence.

Proud of its "French touch", the brand features classical designs in soft colors.

It is SUPER exciting to have you sponsor us this month!The winner of this challenge, as chosen by the Design Team will receive these 2 paper lines from Les Papiers De Pandore!

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Handmade By Suzanne

One lucky person, chosen randomly, will receive this prize from Handmade By Suzanne!

Tim Holtz Alterations Embossing Folder Set (Dot Matrix)

Thank you Les Papiers De Pandore, Imaginarium Designs and Handmade By Suzanne for sponsoring our challenges this month! We couldn't do this without you.

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Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable.

**You may enter as many times as you like and combine this with other challenges.

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

Once Upon A ...Sketch

February 15th Challenge **WINNERS**

March 1st Challenge + Meet our Guest Designer **Iris Babao Uy**

More Inspiration From Our Sponsor *SWIRLYDOOS*

February 1st Challenge **WINNERS**

February 15th Challenge

More Inspiration from our Sponsor **SWIRLYDOOS** Design Team

January 15th Challenge **WINNERS and TOP 5 ! "

February 1st Challenge + Meet Our February Guest Designer Trina McClune

January 1st Challenge *WINNERS*

January 15th Challenge

More Inspiration from Our Sponsors...

January 1st Challenge

December 15th challenge **WINNERS**

More Inspiration From Our Sponsor!

December 1st Challenge **WINNERS**

December 15th Challenge

February 15th Challenge WINNERS

March 1st Challenge + Meet our Guest Designer Iris Babao Uy

More Inspiration From Our Sponsor SWIRLYDOOS

February 1st Challenge WINNERS

More Inspiration from our Sponsor SWIRLYDOOS Design Team

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